Candidate product details refer to the information about a products composition, ingredients, and attributes. When evaluating a product, it is important to consider its positive and negative characteristics. The Safer Choice Standard, for example, considers whole product characteristics, like possible negative synergies between ingredients and pH level, as well as lifecycle factors, like energy efficiency and water savings. The Safer Choice program applies stringent criteria for health and environmental safety in labeling products with the safest possible chemical ingredients. To be eligible for the Safer Choice label, a product must comply with the Safer Choice Standard, which has very stringent human health and environmental criteria.
Ingredients or materials are a crucial aspect of candidate product details. The Safer Choice program evaluates every ingredient against a stringent set of health and environmental criteria, addressing potential health and environmental concerns, including if an ingredient is associated with causing cancer or reproductive harm, and if it accumulates in human tissue or in the environment. The program also uses the technical expertise of its workgroup of EPA scientists to compare ingredients in the same functional class and identify those ingredients with the lowest hazard profile.
In some cases, the ingredients or materials used in a product may have negative characteristics. For example, the Safety Data Sheet for Brakleen® Brake Parts Cleaner notes that the product contains 11.8% of the mixture consisting of component(s) of unknown acute hazards to the aquatic environment.
Overall, understanding candidate product details, including the positive and negative characteristics of a product and its ingredients or materials, is important for making informed decisions about product use and selection.
